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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Okay, so how to describe Fourth Wing...
It's a mix for me: part Hunger Games, part Divergent and part Ali Hazelwood (?) I know it seems like I'm stretching a bit on the last one but you'll soon understand why.
When I first saw the genres this book covered: Romance and Sci Fi & Fantasy, I thought brilliant! I'm a big fan of both. Until I realised it was also about time travel - specifically to 2008. It gave YA, which it may very well have been... I am reading an ARC of this and so have no idea how it has been promoted recently (upon checking Goodreads it does say YA/NA), That being said I had flashbacks to Shatter Me, to Twilight to the type of writing that 8 to 10 year old me would have lapped up. But 23 year old me is confused - very confused. The protagonist is supposed to be 20 and yet says stuff like "gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level hot" last time I saw this many hyphens I was 12. Either she's 20 or 16 being the speech was not giving what I expected from a 20 year old.
The YA 2008 Era references also littered the page, the first chapter itself was full of them, so I thought I'd provide a short summary:
- The Scale Pin? = Mockingjay Pin.
- The Riders Quadrant fight it out thing = The Reaping
- also, "Volun-told?" You mean she didn't volunteer as tribute?
- The sister = Primrose
- Xaden: 'if he finds out who you are maybe he might k-word you' = Divergent
- The Quadrant = Factions
Basically, you have to win the hunger games to get a chance to be picked by a dragon and if the dragon don't pick you, you die. But also there's a shortage of riders? and they still have to go through the hunger games? I don't know if I'm missing something here guys.
It was okay, is what I'm trying to say the comparisons are rife throughout the book. If you're like me and you were around at the beginning of the YA kick-off? The beginning of Shatter Me etc. this will feel familiar. However, I will be reading it for the romance, the enemies to lovers situation has me hooked, which means I will be purchasing a copy, and that is probably the biggest compliment I can give after reading an ARC.
Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group UK, Piatkus for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
It's a mix for me: part Hunger Games, part Divergent and part Ali Hazelwood (?) I know it seems like I'm stretching a bit on the last one but you'll soon understand why.
When I first saw the genres this book covered: Romance and Sci Fi & Fantasy, I thought brilliant! I'm a big fan of both. Until I realised it was also about time travel - specifically to 2008. It gave YA, which it may very well have been... I am reading an ARC of this and so have no idea how it has been promoted recently (upon checking Goodreads it does say YA/NA), That being said I had flashbacks to Shatter Me, to Twilight to the type of writing that 8 to 10 year old me would have lapped up. But 23 year old me is confused - very confused. The protagonist is supposed to be 20 and yet says stuff like "gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level hot" last time I saw this many hyphens I was 12. Either she's 20 or 16 being the speech was not giving what I expected from a 20 year old.
The YA 2008 Era references also littered the page, the first chapter itself was full of them, so I thought I'd provide a short summary:
- The Scale Pin? = Mockingjay Pin.
- The Riders Quadrant fight it out thing = The Reaping
- also, "Volun-told?" You mean she didn't volunteer as tribute?
- The sister = Primrose
- Xaden: 'if he finds out who you are maybe he might k-word you' = Divergent
- The Quadrant = Factions
Basically, you have to win the hunger games to get a chance to be picked by a dragon and if the dragon don't pick you, you die. But also there's a shortage of riders? and they still have to go through the hunger games? I don't know if I'm missing something here guys.
It was okay, is what I'm trying to say the comparisons are rife throughout the book. If you're like me and you were around at the beginning of the YA kick-off? The beginning of Shatter Me etc. this will feel familiar. However, I will be reading it for the romance, the enemies to lovers situation has me hooked, which means I will be purchasing a copy, and that is probably the biggest compliment I can give after reading an ARC.
Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group UK, Piatkus for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.